The document discusses real-time analytics and SAP's Cloud for Planning (C4P) product. C4P aims to provide a modern, consumer-grade user experience for planning and analytics in the cloud. It allows users to simply create and modify planning models, take action anywhere, and align plans across business units with direct integration to SAP software. C4P embeds analytics into the planning process so users can analyze and plan in the same app, personalize dashboards, and collaborate while viewing plans and data. The document provides examples of how C4P could allow users to view KPIs, reports, forecasts and discuss changes.

1. Real-Time Analytics
Tom Rabbitt, Senior Director, SAP America
February 4, 2015

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Current Reality: Bound by Historical Limitations
Sales
Reporting
Product
Profitability
Management
Reporting
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Net Income =
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Expense
Planning
CAPEX
Planning
Revenue
Forecasting

4. Introducing SAP Cloud For Planning (C4P)
Tom Rabbitt

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Our Vision For Real-Time Performance Management
v
Consumer grade
user experience
Connect finance and lines-of-business
SAP EPM
In the cloud
Embedded ERP
and stand alone
High-performance,
real-time platform

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Announcing SAP Cloud for Planning
Plan Simpler.
• Future-oriented
• People-centric
• Analytics-embedded
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Future-oriented
• Enjoy a new generation of planning in
the cloud with a modern look and feel
• Plan and simulate at any level of
detail, with any number of users, at
any time
• Trust your application will perform
when and how you expect
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People-centric
• Simply create and modify planning
models on the fly
• Take action anytime, anywhere on the
desktop or on the go
• Align plans across Finance and
business units with direct integration
into SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation
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Analytics-embedded
• Analyze and plan in the same app
• Personalize your KPIs and dashboard
• Collaborate in-context of your plan
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11. This is John Smiths personal
home dashboard. Each KPI,
from Geo-Maps to Gauges are
simply to create and pin to a
dashboard

12. KPI’s are
dynamic…you can
move into more
detail or add more
data with filtering

13. You can reset KPI
views after drill
through on data

14. Can also see more
detail by “mouse
over” functionality

15. Within his dashboard John smith had
pinned a task…he can go to the event
manager to view a range of workflow,
events, and tasks

16. Within his dashboard John smith can
see a calendar view of events and
tasks

17. John can view what event this task is
assigned to. Within event manager, John
can also assign reminders, responsibility
and alerts

18. By clicking on an event John can also
view a monthly/weekly/yearly
timeline

19. John can see that Q2 is falling below
forecast. He decides to go into a
regional report to view actuals to
forecast

20. Select his report

21. In this report view John can also
change which perspectives he is
viewing and how data is filtered

22. John decides to add some additional
visualization to his report view by
selecting specific cells of data and
then the visualization button

23. John selects a variance chart and
automatically he can view actual to
forecast variance across different regions

24. John sees North America has Q2 issues.
He starts a discussion with the director of
sales.

26. Because of the “in context” design the
report that John was viewing is attached
to the discussion.

27. Comments are added…John logs out

28. Director of Sales Bill logs in

29. Bill sees discussion
invitation - Note that bill
has a different dashboard
view within different
charting …

31. Bill sees Johns comments

32. Bill, as the Director of Sales
understands the issues. H has a
serious issue with suppliers in
Canada. He goes to view a separate
report he has on supplier
performance

33. Select Supplier Performance
report view. John created this
model and report himself
within data coming directly
from stores

34. John has setup KPI alerts to
ensure quick visualization
of performance

35. By using additional
visualization John can
quickly see the requests
and delivered status of his
poor performing supplier

36. John re-opens the
discussion from John and
provides feedback

37. John re-opens the discussion
from John and provides
feedback…he is addressing the
problem but it will take another
quarter to get it fixed. He wants
to reduce his Q3 forecast

40. John see Bills comments and
proceed to create a private
version of the forecast which he
can adjust and send for approval

41. John see Bills comments and
proceed to create a private
version of the forecast which he
can adjust and send for approval

43. John has a report view showing
regional breakdown of revenue

44. John filters the report view to see
only Canada

45. John selects the version manager
and creates a copy of the forecast

47. New private version

48. John makes adjustment to Q3
forecast for Canada.

49. John opens discussion with Lisa
(Director of Planning).
He attaches the forecast change
and says he will wait for her
approval before re-forecast